Buckfield tractor-trailer rolls in Greene; driver OK

The accident occurred on North River Road near Allen Pond Road.

Wilton homeowner escapes fire on Main Street

Flames from the basement burned through the first floor.

Androscoggin County withdraws support for CMP transmission line project

Roughly a dozen people spoke at the meeting to voice their opposition to Central Maine Power’s proposed plan, which ended with commissioners voting to rescind a previous show of support.

Here’s looking at you, 2020

Where DID that decade go? I just wrote a date with 2020 for the first time. Felt kind of cool. Tingled a little bit and in all the right places. It’s going to be a good year. The kid ain’t mine, I tells you So, on New Year’s Day, my responsibilities included checking in with […]

Misfits Rehab plans to rebuild from fire

Nine chickens died when flames consumed their coop Thursday in Auburn.

Chickens die in fire at animal rescue center in Auburn

The coop at 850 Garfield Road is on the property of Misfits Rehab run by wildlife rehabilitator Jennifer Marchigiani.

Police say storage unit burglar used a U-Haul truck and storage unit to handle stolen loot

Power tools, air conditioners, fishing gear, ceiling fans, camping equipment, appliances, a motorcycle and other items were recovered as Auburn police investigated a spree of storage unit burglaries.

Oh, baby! New Year’s Day births in Lewiston, Portland

Noelle Grace Lamontagne, born at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston at 9:19 a.m. Wednesday, weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, which a nursing supervisor described as “just perfect.” 

PHOTOS: Crews douse car fire in Lisbon

Children make the world look pretty cool

The kid came out of nowhere.  One moment I was slumped in a post-Christmas semi-doze at my newsroom desk and the next, I was wide awake and scrambling to figure out where the pint-sized ninja boy had come from.  “What’s your name?” the tow-headed lad asked me.  “Mark. What’s yours?”  The boy told he his […]